Is Japan a Western country ?

[Maciamo]

. Offensive Slang
Used as a disparaging term for a member of the white rural laboring class, especially in the southern United States.
A white person regarded as having a provincial, conservative, often bigoted attitude.

I suppose that's the definition of redneck. Usually it also implies a lack of education and very self-centered view of the world (I guess that could be associated with being conservative and bigoted). What I meant is that I didn't like people like that, wherever they come from and whatever their ethnic group. What I especially dislike is the ignorant/uneducated aspect, because that is merely up to oneself to learn (it's so easy with the Internet nowadays, but books have always existed for people living now).

if you avoid the numbers 4000 etc, probably people like to read about your bad experiences.

I couldn't quite make sense of that last sentence (numbers 4000 ?).

[alexriversan]

I suppose that's the definition of redneck. Usually it also implies a lack of education and very self-centered view of the world (I guess that could be associated with being conservative and bigoted). What I meant is that I didn't like people like that, wherever they come from and whatever their ethnic group. What I especially dislike is the ignorant/uneducated aspect, because that is merely up to oneself to learn (it's so easy with the Internet nowadays, but books have always existed for people living now).

sometimes they know it, somehow, and do not interfere with things they do not understand.
sometimes they say "i do not understand"
sometimes they write/say things they do not understand themselves.
i am self-centered, but i am working at it. at least i add "in my opinion" now.

that's off-topic, but you generalized people using a word which is related to america's history. some workers do not talk too much in, the wrong place, at the wrong time, i would assume.

[alexriversan]

seen from the east coast of america, japan is a western country.

the europeans invented the compass in europe, china to the east and america to the west.

quite entertaining.